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HYMN I.

THE PRAYER OF JACOB.

GOD of Abraham! by whose hand

Thy people still are fed;

Who, thro' this weary pilgrimage,

Hast all our fathers led !

Our vows, our prayers, we now present

Before thy throne of grace;

God of our Fathers be the God

Of their succeeding race!

Thro' each perplexing path of life

Our wandering footsteps guide,

Give us by day our daily bread,

And raiment fit provide!

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O fpread O spread thy covering wings around, Till all our wanderings cease,

And at our Fathers loved abode

Our feet arrive in peace!

Now with the humble voice of prayer

Thy mercy we implore;

Then with the grateful voice of praise Thy goodness we'll adore!

HYMN II.

THE COMPLAINT OF NATURE.

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EW are thy days and full of woe,
O man of woman born!

Thy doom is written, dust thou art,
And shalt to dust return.

Determin'd are the days that fly
Successive o'er thy head;

The number'd hour is on the wing,
That lays thee with the dead.

Alas! the little day of life

Is shorter than a span;

Yet black with thousand hidden ills

To miferable man.

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